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GAO: Cancel Medicare Advantage demo that squandered $8B

The Government Accountability Office is calling for an end to what it says is an ineffective Medicare Advantage bonus program, which has wasted more than $8 billion, The New York Times reported. The

Pay for performance fails to improve quality

New research published in yesterday's Health Affairs casts even more doubt as to whether pay for performance is working. According to a study of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration,

Pay for performance fails to improve mortality rates

Flying in the face of the government's national pay-for-performance initiatives, new research finds that hospital incentives failed to achieve their goal of improving patient outcomes, specifically,

Hospitals underestimate threat of HCAHPS penalties

Despite the looming threat of reduced reimbursements under performance measures, hospitals may be overly optimistic that they will perform well, according to experts at the American College of Health

Interview: Health exec pay to focus on long-term, not annual, goals

Kevin Talbot Health executives on average received salary increases of 3 percent at healthcare systems and 2.8 percent at independent and subsidiary hospitals, according to a recent report

Quality incentives show mixed results for hospitals, payers

As the industry shifts toward rewarding quality and not quantity, healthcare leaders still wonder whether pay-for-performance (P4P) models will actually improve care and cut costs. According to a

Hospitals save $105M by reducing complications, rewarding quality

Hospitals in Maryland saved more than $105 million during the past two years by cutting infections and other hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), following the recent success of Michigan hospitals,

Don't count on financial incentives to improve care quality

The healthcare industry has put much focus on pay-for-performance programs to improve the quality of care. Yet new research questions this approach and suggests that providing financial incentives to

Physicians compensated for volume, not quality

Like nails against a chalkboard, a new study by Merritt Hawkins reveals that physicians are compensated for patient volume and not quality, a trend that has some dismayed at current recruitment and

Cheating is the downside of targeted P4P, study says

As government and private payers look to pay-for-performance (P4P)--also called value-based purchasing--as the payment model that will push providers to produce higher-quality patient care at a lower